BPA Sets a Wind Production Record for Its Grid

ByRod Adams August 18, 2009July 16, 2020

The Clean Skies News Energy Report: Afternoon Edition of August 17, 2009 concluded with a report about a wind electricity production record set on August 6, 2009. The video from that report is posted below. It is clipped from the report, but otherwise unedited. I am sharing it with you under the site’s Creative Commons license. The numbers shared in the report are thought and comment provoking.

There is also a text version of the same story titled BPA Wind Farm Reaches New Mark

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Power Magazine Blog – Curmudgeon’s View: a Negative View of Gas Reactors (HTGR) Needing a Response

ByRod Adams April 7, 2010July 19, 2020

Kennedy Maize published a Power Magazine blog post titled Curmudgeon’s View: Waste, DOE, and New Reactors that provided a view of high temperature gas reactors that conflicted with mine. (Ken Maize happens to share my view about Yucca Mountain and the efficacy of simply storing used fuel in safe containers on reactor sites, so I…

Stand by for a rough ride

ByRod Adams August 29, 2005July 21, 2020

As we watch Hurricane Katrina come ashore and pray for the safety of the people who were not able to evacuate, there is little doubt that oil and natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico is going to be seriously affected by this massive storm. Off shore wells and the pipelines that connect them…

Carl Pope, Executive Director of The Sierra Club – Anti-Nuclear Hogwash on Huffington Post

ByRod Adams July 10, 2009July 10, 2020

Carl Pope, one of the predictable opponents to any talk of using atomic fission at an antidote to oil, coal and gas addiction, has published a new propaganda piece rehashing many old and false arguments against nuclear power. You can find it on the Huffington Post under the title of About That Nuclear Revival…. Over…

Capitol Valley interviews Dr. Patrick Moore in Washington, DC

ByRod Adams March 20, 2008July 21, 2020

Dr. Patrick Moore of the CASE (Clean and Safe Energy) Coalition is a former Greenpeace leader who is now a strong pro-nuclear power advocate. The popular blog Capitol Valley – Views on technology and public policy from both coasts recently interviewed Dr. Moore in a Dupont Circle cafe. You can read the comment and hear…

Targeted Marketing By Clean Skies Foundation – DC Metro Capitol South Station

ByRod Adams February 19, 2010December 15, 2022

This morning I took the Orange line train of the DC Metro system to work. It was not as busy as usual, perhaps because Fridays tend to be days when some of the city workers have already completed their assigned hours by working a compressed work schedule. Aside: One thing I tend to notice while…

Lovins failed gospel

ByRod Adams July 21, 2005July 21, 2020

Yesterday, I posted a link to a new anti-nuclear diatribe by Amory Lovins, a man that has been preaching the gospel of “negawatts” for more than a quarter of a century. According to his dogma, the only energy supply we need is conservation; and, implicitly, a little less of all of the sources of energy…

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